Surprise surprise - Kirsty has a Mini Sausage Roll in the oven! Discuss the Archers here

[PseudoBadger]

Happy New Year to you all.

The harder he pushes the more she will dig in IMO

Roy was fab tonight. Maybe he is going to be Kirsty's salvation! (I know that was mooted a while back)

Boop for Roy.

Oh and boop boop for the Button girls.

I agree, and I don't think that marks the start of a successful co-parenting relationship!

Hooray! I've found Archers lovers on MN. Impregnated by the sausage king, but it sounded tonight like Roy will be the step-dad

I simply loved the uproar at No 1 The Green tonight. I hope Johnny and Freddie's friendship is to be an enduring one - they're delightful listening together - although darling Freddie seems to have lost the sardonic tone he employed with his Ma lately. (They surely haven't changed the actor again?)

And yes, Tom and Kirsty as an ongoing contrast to Rob and Helen has ... possibilities. Not as potent as the sinkhole though.

Patricia Galimore narrates a series of audiobooks that I listen to - they're set in Shrewsbury and have some Welsh characters so I suspect she hails from that part of the world originally.

I think it's reasonable that accents change. My original very strong northern accent is almost undetectable now despite me living there til I was 19, and not because I've made any efforts to lose it!

Brace yourself Qwertie! You'll get sucked in and never get anything done again 😁.

Happy New Year all

Just caught up in last few days. Tom is going to drive Kirsty (and the rest of us) bonkers if he keeps this up. Let's hope he calms down! She was very forgiving about New years Eve as well! Roy is lovely but I'm not keen on the idea of him and Kirsty getting together, just seems too convenient. If Tom could get his act together then it would be nice if they could give it another go but if not then I think Kirsty needs to eventually find someone completely new, not just settle with the person she happens to live with.

Nice touch with the Button girls, shows that Rob has well and truly got himself a reputation in the village.

Interesting mention of Miles by Adam too...maybe Robs brother hasn't been forgotten by the SWs after all?

More Toby speculation from the BBC TA site.

Thanks for the new thread Pseudo

Just realised I forgot to comment on Nancy, linked by DDD upthread

This month's is much more her style, she must be feeling better

"Sean O'Connor, our exciting editor" (or exiting as suggested BtL )

just had a look at the comments under NBS piece, one had pointed out that it's Brighton Toby keeps disappearing to...had never thought about that...

I think signs are pointing to Kirsty and Roy getting together - "You're a lovely man", she helped him spruce up his image for Internet dating, he's adamant he won't get together with anyone with kids, but sounded v excited about the baby ... also would set up an interesting conflict between Roy and Tom.

Indeed Shalli!

Although I'm coming round to the girlfriend-giving-birth possibility rather than an already existing set up. Either way, If Tobes is planning to use Pip as an erm ... cash cow to feather his other family's nest ... It would all be audaciously Henry James (being deliberately vague because the moment of realisation in the relevant novel was an absolute turning point in my understanding of the adult world).

I don't see any hint of romance between Roy and Kirsty.

He did sound excited about the baby but I think he's just someone who likes babies. He had experience of being a father very young, being a father at a more reasonable age and getting a surprise baby half sister, all of which he took in his stride and gave him happiness.

Well I've just listened today for the first time in two weeks and I don't have a damn clue what is going on.
In fairness though I have listed since I have been able to hear (the world stopped for TA when I was growing up) and I've never had a bloody clue what was going on.

'Kirsty is pregnant' road. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but I think it's that I'd have preferred the two of them to have found a way back to one another more slowly instead of finding themselves connected for life unintentionally.
If they'd found a back way in then she wouldn't have got pregnant.

I'll get my coat.

Pip grows the wings of a dove, Gruach?

She's too hearty!

Maybe it's a mad girlfriend who is sectioned? A bit Wuthering Heights gone badly wrong ( not that Wuithering Heights isn't a barking plot line )

The courts are not necessarily right. Hell should never have been so keen to have a "Daddy" for her child, but it's too late now for the moment.

The break up should happen gradually IMO.

The courts have decided on the basis of the evidence, including that of the social worker, that seeing Rob would be be harmful to Henry. Harm is no less potent because it's being gradually wound down. I can't see how stringing out the parting would make it any easier for Henry. As pp have pointed out, in RL a counsellor would have been organised and the family would have received professional advice on telling Henry precisely why he doesn't see Rob any more.

What I don't get about Brighton is: whatever it is, it's something that regularly entails Toby having to find wodges of money. So when Toby was happily saying how the withdrawal of support by his father wasn't a problem, why on earth didn't Rob ask him how he thought he was going to meet the next Brighton-related financial demand?

Hmm ... This being MN I feel bound to wonder whether the timeline - from whenever Rex said "It'll be like Brighton all over again" (or whatever) to now isn't rather too long to render the pregnant girlfriend story viable. Why would Tobes have been impregnating young ladies early last year when he'd already committed himself to the joys of Ambridge?

But it's late and this speculation is mere work avoidance. I may be mis-thinking.

You're right, the first Brighton comment was way back, I'd have said not long after they arrived well over a year ago. Gambling seems more likely - rex might not tell Pip about that ( leastwise, unless he finds out about her bankrolling Toby) whereas as has been said, he surely would if there was another woman with or without child.

I have decided that I don't like long drawn out suspense as entertainment. After the Helrob story, not satisfactorily concluded (for me). The Brighton question is just not very interesting. Perhaps he is restoring the old pier or something, or is paying a blackmailer.

You know you're a wrong 'un when silent characters turn on you. :o

Brighton has to come to a head soon. Perhaps Pipsqueak will corner Rex about it.